Dynamic HTML Black Book: The Web Professional's Guide to Using and Interacting with Dynamic HTML (Paperback)

by Natanya Pitts-Moultis (Author), C. C. Sanders (Author), Ramesh Chandak (Author) "To fully understand how we've gotten where we are, we must take a good look at the road we've traveled..." (more)
Key Phrases: onscroll event, menu buttons cause, canvas mode, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Robert Benson (more...)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Shows how to use both Netscape's and Microsoft's versions of DHTML. Contains information on how to use the entire palette of features in Dynamic HTML to produce all kinds of dynamic components. Improves content developers' ability to create more interactive Web pages, which will give users a richer and more compelling Web experience. Demonstrates how to apply multimedia effects on components like text, colors, graphics, animation, sound, synchronized media packages, and layouts. Teaches how to connect Dynamic HTML content with databases to produce data-aware environments. Provides Web site developers with enhanced control over the appearance and behavior of Web pages.

About the Author
Natanya Pitts (Austin, TX) is an accomplished Webmaster and corporate trainer, as well as a published author. Her publications include the Official BBEdit Book, Webmaster Macintosh, Hip Pocket Guide to HTML 3.2, The HTML Style Sheets Design Guide, and Dynamic HTML Black Book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 662 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books (February 26, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576101886
• ISBN-13: 978-1576101889
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #551,600 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You really shouldn't waste your money on this!, September 24, 1998

By A Customer

The book is said to handle about Dynamic HTML. In general lines it does, but with a lot of words around it. You can summarize the entire book in just 40 usefull pages, the rest is just not interesting, such as complete listings of DHTML-sites, WITHOUT explanation. The entire book handles to much about the history of HTML and HTML in theory. The CDROM should contain several usefull programs, but it's not worth anything either.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars From the visual effects to the sound - DHTML Black Book., April 28, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Brazil) - See all my reviews

The book combines all technologies that sourround web development. It really introduce what is dhtml (not as a proprietary technology) but as a combination of a set of technologies like CSS, DOM, Javascript, etc. From the standards to the production the book also cover animation in dhtml, sound, visual effects and awesome demonstrations.

IT's cool for beginners as encouragement, and perfect for web professionals as the gold resource.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dynamic HTML is less than Useless, November 10, 2001

By	"darknerd" (San Jose, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This book is severaly outdated. The material is Netscape 4 and Internet Exploder specific. Nowhere, will users get adequate information about developing DHTML using W3C standards (DOM1, DOM2, CSS1, and CSS2). As Netscape 6, Opera 5, and Internet 5 support these new standards, any web pages developed from this book's material will not work across all browsers, and instead will be glued onto Microsoft or obsoleted versions of Netscape.

The book offers mounds of general information about HTML and HTML technology, but does not offer any code snippets to illustrate the concepts, except for the seldom few places here and there.

Towards the end of the book are dumps of source code. This is an utter waste of precious trees. This material could have just been put on the CD. There are no code walkthroughs of the material, so one wonders if the authors are going for the paid per word/page/etc.

There are those books out there that are full of fluff and are good to stuff a bookshelf in the bookstore, and then there are those books that are a rare gem of enlightenment. This book leans more towards the fluff.